| C-Ville Weekly | |
| Type: | Alternative weekly |
| Format: | Berliner |
| Foundation: | 1989 |
| Price: | Free |
| Publisher: | Portico Publications Ltd |
| Editor: | Cathryn Harding[1] |
| Staff: | 24+ |
| Circulation: | 24,000[2] |
| Headquarters: | C-ville Weekly 308 East Main Street Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Oclc: | 31820304 |
The C-Ville Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper distributed around Charlottesville, Virginia. Dubbing itself "Charlottesville's News & Arts Weekly," in 2001, the newspaper made over $100,000 in profits.
In 2013 C-ville Weekly and other local newspaper Charlottesville Tomorrow entered a content sharing agreement with intent to improve journalism on education.[3]
In June 2020 the newspaper laid off staff.[4] The remaining journalism team was two reporters, a part-time editor, and a budget to hire a copy editor as needed.[5] [6]
Hawes Spencer and Bill Chapman founded the paper as a bi-weekly in 1989.
In January 2002 newspaper owners Bill Chapman and Rob Jiranek dismissed Hawes Spencer as editor of C-Ville Weekly.[7] In response Spencer and some other C-ville Weekly staff founded competing newspaper, The Hook.[7] Cathryn Harding became editor in January 2002.[8]
In 2011 the parent companies which owned C-ville Weekly and the Hook merged, re-uniting publications which had common origins.[9]
In 2018 the arts and living reporter for Cville Weekly remarked that after the 2017 Unite the Right rally, there was more community support for journalism on local people of color.[10]